I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds. Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.

How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.